Why is Apache SO annoying?
Posted by Sam
I guess I've been getting spoiled by LiteSpeed's excellent web server lately because after working with Apache for about an hour I'm thoroughly annoyed. Why do you need to tell Apache that you are going to use it for virtual hosting? Seriously? Every web server I've seen in the last seven or eight years has been configured for virtual hosting. Does Apache still need a directive for that? And why on earth does the entire web server fail to start when you forget to create a directory for the log files? At most I could see not starting that site. And that's at most. I didn't realize how annoying Apache is until I switched to something else. IIS is just as annoying, just in different ways. LiteSpeed on the other hand is outstanding. For those of you jumping through Mongrel and Apache hoops for your Rails deployments I strong recommend you look at LiteSpeed. It's much nicer and a LOT faster than Apache.